Discussion For Giga's Clarke Tech Post

[TopHouse]

I've been having a go at this and after a couple of messages between gIGA and myself I'm getting the hang of it. What I did though is not to use a serial cable, instead i downloaded GIGA's empty list with just the terrestrial frequencies in it, then started adding my sats, eventually I'll simply save it and upload it via USB key.

So far I have in :-

42E, 39E, 36E, 28.5E, 28.2E, 26E, 23.5E, 19.2E, 16E, 13E, 9E, 7E, 4.8E, 0.8W, 1W, 4W, 5W, 7W, 8W, 12.5W, 22W, 30W, 43W

Can anyone spot anything I may have missed but should have in? I'm in NW England.

Also, would you leave 0.8W and 1W as separates or would you merge them?

Is anyone interested in this list when i've finished as I can add it to public upload section if anyone wants it.

[Giga]

apparantly, you have a motorised dish. If you could make some screenshots of how to set up these and some small info where needed, think this would be a great addition.
If other Clarke Tech Studio Users can confirm this is working the same way on other STB's? Like
tm 1000 , tm1500 and tm 1600 (echelon post on C-tech editors (https://www.satpimps.co.uk/showthread.php?p=449378))
The thread in question is this one:
Clarke Tech Studio (step by step) (https://www.satpimps.co.uk/showthread.php?t=110802) <= Weblink

any other tips for using this program and you like to share with us? :grouphug:

[Giga]

Also, would you leave 0.8W and 1W as separates or would you merge them?

I'm not sure on this, but I tried to expand this even further and did split this further in to satellites and even split this on the beam level. That did not work verry well, could be a shortage in transponder place?

Maybe I revisit this later and do this again each satellite individual and per beam on a given position.
Think this will be usefull for pointing a dish and finding if there is a problem on weaker signals and point to these and see if this improves the overall signal? So this would mean a different channel list for each position, each individual satellite separate and split up in to beams like for 1°W:

intelsat 10-02 spot 1 1.0°W
intelsat 10-02 spot 3 1.0°W
Thor 5 Beam europe 0.8°W
Thor 3 Beam nordic 0.8°W

[TopHouse]

Two points with doing it this way, it corrects the little flaws in TM scans where it sends out the frequencies a little, (those who have TM's will know what I mean) This way the frequencies are all spot on.

Another thing people may not know, you can run the editors in multi instance, so you can have your new web downloaded list open in one editor and have your old one in another for example to refer to your favourites.

[TopHouse]

I thought i might put a fave in called "Freesat" and add all the freesat channels into a fave list of their own, easier said than done lol, trying to find a decent list of the freesat channels is a nighmare.

[Giga]

first problem: favourite can only hold limited n° (128 I think) channels.
When you right click on the channel list you can use the Select and choose Select FTA channels

[TopHouse]

OK, converting from usals to diseq was a complete PITA as it's not only the setting from usals to diseq 1.2 that needs to be changed, it's also the diseq ID's that get lost, so, even if you set from usals to diseq and then upload to TM, if you go to motorised settings it says "no satellite" so, instead you need to go to sat settings for each added sat and select the yellow save button.

HOWEVER

I now have one done with the folowing sats and set up for Diseq, :-

42E, 39E, 36E, 28.5E, 28.2E, 26E, 23.5E, 19.2E, 16E, 13E, 9E, 7E, 4.8E, 0.8W, 1W, 4W, 5W, 7W, 8W, 12.5W, 22W, 30W, 43W

Going to upload it to the public upload centre and post a link here.

EDIT

Link to thread on upload center is here :-

https://www.satpimps.co.uk/showthread.php?p=629556#post62955 6